About this course

VicSRC has created this short course to help school-aged students understand how to use their voice at school to make change.

 This course is for you if you:

  • are curious to learn about student voice
  • want to be involved in decision making at your school
  • are passionate about making school better for everyone

What's in the course?

Click the dropdowns below to see what is covered .

    1. Acknowledgement of Country

    2. Welcome!

    3. About this course

    4. Course overview

    5. Glossary

    1. An overview of student voice

    2. Voice, agency and participation

    3. Convenient vs inconvenient

    4. Students as decision makers

    5. Student Representative Teams

    1. Making change

    2. Collective student voice

    3. School power map

    4. Fighting the no

    1. Real life examples

    2. Democracy in the student representative team

    3. Students as coaches

    4. Student composting project

    5. Primary school whole school approach

    6. More examples

    1. Get involved in student voice

    2. Get involved with VicSRC

    3. Feedback survey
  • Free
  • 23 lessons
  • 30 days access

About VicSRC

This course is developed and maintained by the Victorian Student Representative Council (VicSRC). VicSRC was created by school-aged students to be a voice for students at the highest levels of decision making in Victoria, Australia. It exists to empower all student voices to be valued in every aspect of education.

VicSRC is an organisation based in Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia, but we’ve done our best to make this course make sense for students anywhere in the world!

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